Warm Weather

While I fully realize that to most people who read our blog, the weather we are experiencing here in Chicago is NOT warm, I have been enjoying the warm (20 degree and up), relatively windless, pre-spring days in Westmont. I can wear a light sweater and a sweater jacket most days outside. I even took the dog to the park and enjoyed a full twenty minutes of walking around (more time than I've had a breather for - or rather, the breath for at the same time as the breather) since before we started packing up in February. Ahhh, good ol' Vitamin D is good for the soul, the pregnant skeletal structure, and the overall attitude. Not to mention my dog heeled like a wonder-pup after we played fetch for a few minutes, which for dog owners, you know is always a gratifying moment when your dog decides to obey your calmest commands.

I even slept with the bedroom window open last night.

Of course, that could have been more related to my night-long hot flash.

And, I DID achieve my hallmark vacuum moment. It was beautiful (feeling the accomplishment). And disgusting (seeing the vacuum compartment the 3 times I had to empty it of dog hair. Yuck.).

Now, with spring coming, I can turn my attention away from wiping muddy paws before they mark our carpeting, and towards the fun baby-crafts and home-making crafts I would love to do. So, while I HAVE been stalking your blogs and enviously dreaming of my own days of furniture overhaul, knitting marathons, and other sewing or wood or food or anything-else crafting, if anyone remembers any particularly fun pre-baby applicable crafts they blogged about, please please post me a link so I can re-stalk you with more immediate intentions. Especially if they are cheap cheap... because really, we are expecting a money-pit to be born into our family in a few weeks and so are pinching pennies.